LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1164, 27 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Supremo Court case Cable v. Alexander A. Eeynell, claim .EIOOO damages for bodily injuries, will not bo heard until next session.

His Honour Sir Joshua Williams will take business in Chambers at 10.30 to-day.

An Order-in-Council, authorising tho construction of the Charlotte Street tramway has been issued by the Public Works Department, ami is now in the hands of the City Engineer. This opens the way for the* construction of a line extending down Charlotte Street, from the corner of Molesworth Street and Aitken Street, across I.ambton Quay and down Bimny Street to a. junction with the Jervois Quay line. An Order-in-Council authorising the construction of a line in Charlotte Street was issued some years ago, but was permitted to lapse.

With Teferenco to tho gun accident which occurred to three members of the Field Battery during fhe firing of the Royal salute at the Auckland Coronation celebrations, the following telegram was (Vint to Major-General Godley from the Officer Commanding the Auckland Military District:—"Please inform tho General Officer Commanding thnt his kind message was delivered, and was much appreciated. Glad, io inform him that men going on very satisfactorily, and that doctor says he thinks he will be able to save their injured eyes, which has been a matter of great anxiety."

The annual "capping" ceremony in connection wifii the presentation of degrees to the graduates of the year at ,"/ictoria College will take place this nflcrncon at the Town Hall.

A case affecting farriers and general blacksmiths was filed yesterday for hearing before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. H. llnlly). Assessors have been appointed, and Mr. W. C. Noot will act as agent for the employees' union.

A storekeeper named Allan Yin, of Ohakune was lost in thn bush when nut pigeon shooting. Ho went out with a companion on Thursday anil they succeeded in shooting a number of pigeons, iifler which they parted. The other man returned homo safely, but Yin got. last , in the dense bush and as night came nn the whistles at (Jammnii's mill wove sounded. Search parties wore, sent nut and lnlo the following day Yin wa* discovered in u very exhausted condition, lie hail thrown away his pigeons and. gun and had Quite lost ills btaringe.

At (US p.m. last night , the Fire Brigade received a call In :i!l Johnston 'Street —a brick Iniilding owned by S. Brown, Ltd., and occupied as oflices. The fire »iis in tins front office on Ihc ground floor, Ihis ollicc being occupied by Mr. I , '. <-i. lioltou, solicilor. K was extinguished before much damage had been done. A gas heater, igniting some woodwork, caused t'he outbreak. The building is insured in the Victoria Oflice, but it is not known whether the contents are covered or not.

Word reached Wellington yesterday that Mr. KciT, S.M. at Wnngainii, had sustained ii fracture of his right arm through being thrown out of a buggy.

Halley's comol, which was nearest (to tho sun and to the earth and at its greatest brilliancy more than a year ago, has been followed on its journey into distant space with the telescopes of the Lick Observatory. The comet is now (says a message from the Ob.-.ervatory dated May 27) a little further than Jupiter is from (he sun—that is, about 500,000,000 miles—but Astronomer Curtis lins photographed it with the Crossley reliector on two nighls Ihis week exactly in (he predicted positions. Even with the powerful photographic telescope, the image, of tho comet is extremely faint on the plates, and it. would no doubt be invisible in the most powerful telescopes if looked for visually. The comet is now 60 per cent further from the sun than it was when its approach to the sun was discovered photographically in September, 1909.

In connection with the Marsden centenary, the l?ev. J. Kin? Davis writes as follows to the Auckland "Herald":—Tho Rev. Samuel Marsden sent Messrs. Hall and Kendall on a preliminary visit to tho Hay of islands about the middle of 1811. In the last part of the year lie made his first visit, and the first mission station was formed at Oihi. There he left not only Messrs. Hall and Kendall, but also Mr. King—each with his family. Sooner or later the first, and second of these missionaries left New Zealand. Mr. King remained to the end of his life. His grave is in his family burial-plot, not far from the Marsdeu Cross. Yet his name is not mentioned in the historical account printed annui-.lly in the New Zealand Year Book. Hitherto I have refrained from drawing attention publicly to tho imperfection of the Goi crunioat record. The doing of gocl work is tiie essential thing, not its being published abroad. And I believe tint Mr. King would have said "Belter fo. <. . . Let it be." But now that the Marsden centenary in 1914 is so nsar, it stems time that the account was made complete.

lenders have been called for the removal of the Queen's Statue from its present site to a new one in Kent Terrace, ami they will be considered by the City Council lit its meeting on Thursday next, renders were called some time ago for this work, but all that came in were rejected, owing to a difficulty arising over the conditions insisted upon by the council.

Two boys, aged 15 and 16 respectively, and employed at the Te Aro Post Office, were arrested yesterday by Detective Andrews. They will appear before the magistrate this morning on charges of theft of letters containing postal notes, the property of the rostmaster-Gcncral.

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